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Each tool-deficient NTD varies in what is needed to advance it to the tool-ready category. For instance, many of these diseases have features that prevent early detection and/or require treatment that must be administered by highly trained professionals in specialized facilities. Because of these and similar challenges, the World Health Organization suggests addressing tool-deficient diseases by first strengthening primary care systems in endemic areas and offering innovative and intensified disease management.